What would cause this strange occurance?

[KingPariah777]

http://www.drobco.com/rfrank/chuck/wierd.jpg

All I can think of is that the NTFS partition table is corrupted or something...i have a feeling that a repartitioning of the drive would solve this problem, but does anyone have any other suggestions?

EDIT: It is worth noting that I also experience massive data corruption on this drive. My primary physical drive is fine. My machine is overclocked, but is completely stable in Prime95 (24+ hours) and Memtest. Dealing with large files (such as DVD backups) always renders them unwatchably corrupted. I also sometimes find unused files that cannot be deleted.

[Ice Czar]

Exabite? :eek:
think your right some sort of corruption
you have read the sticky?

what is your tRAS set to?

[SKiTLz]

Im suprised XP even recognizes an EB

[KingPariah777]

my mem is actually qualified to run at 2-3-3-6 and it is set higher than that...2.5-3-3-8, with the tRas being 3.

Does anyone think that the harddrive could be permanently damaged?

Or does this seem like a problem that can be corrected with repartitioning?

(It is an 80 gig drive, I have nothing to back it up on, so i want to be sure before I go through the effort)

[KingPariah777]

Originally posted by Ice Czar
Exabite? :eek:
think your right some sort of corruption
you have read the sticky?

what is your tRAS set to?

My apologies! I didn't read the sticky, i am reading it now...who would have known, im the one that started that thread...

Edit: This thread might as well be combined with that thread...I don't think we will know anything until I take the plunge of backing up this data. The only thing that bothers me is that I wont know if the transfer itself corrupted data, as 60 gigs of mp3's, movies and installations can't really be tested for integrity.

I will let you guys know the status when it happens.

[KingPariah777]

Originally posted by SKiTLz
Im suprised XP even recognizes an EB

NTFS baby!

[Lazn_Work]

Try unoverclocking your PC to see if it behaves that way.

worth trying anyways.

==>Lazn

[KingPariah777]

Originally posted by Lazn_Work
Try unoverclocking your PC to see if it behaves that way.

worth trying anyways.

==>Lazn

Nothing is overclocked but the chip. The MB, ram, buses, etc are all running at their qualified speeds.

The chip is a fine overclocker, with little voltage increase and safe temperatures...prime95 perfect too.

Could the fact that my ram timings are looser than spec be considered?